Corsair Announces New Line of Power Supply Units

Fremont, California — September 14, 2010 — Corsair®, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, today announced the Corsair Gaming Series™ Power Supplies. These PSUs are an ideal price-performance solution for building or upgrading a gaming PC.

ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 AMD 890GX Socket AM3 Motherboard Review

If you didn’t know, AMD and partners market and sell the “GX” and “G” series motherboards as economy boards. They differ from the FX in that they have integrated graphics, but they are fully capable of running discrete video cards. Though their graphics capabilities are more for HTPC and “surf the net and read email” people, the onboard VGA is getting better and will actually play a number of games at lower settings. Today I will be looking at one of ASUS’ new 890 GX motherboards, the M4A89GTD Pro/USB3. This board is just bursting with new features, some we haven’t seen before, others we’ve seen on Asus’ Intel boards but not their AMD boards. The chipset not only natively supports SATA 6Gb/s, it also has brand new integrated graphics, the Radeon HD 4290, which ATI says far surpasses the earlier HD 4200. Will the M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 pass the test? Read on to see!

“Not that long ago NVIDIA released its GTX 460 video cards. These cards gave gamers an even better bang for their buck and the cards were aimed to compete with AMD’s low end 5800 and 5700 series cards. Of course many custom PC builders have incorporated these new cards into their systems to give gamers better performance at a great price. Cyberpower PC is one of those custom PC builders and today we will be looking at their Gamer Dragon system which features an AMD Phenom II X6 processor, NVIDIA GTX 460 GPU, 2GB of DDR3 memory and much more. All of this for just over $1000 too! Let’s check it out!”Read On…

Icy Dock has changed the game yet again with the new MB982IP-1S 2.5″ to 3.5″ SATA/SAS SSD & HDD Converter. The MB982 is predicated off the incredibly popular MB882SP-1S-1B device, taking its general concept and improving it tenfold. This product is designed using the dimensions, connection locations, and mounting hole positions of a standard 3.5″ drive, so that it can be used in any internal hard drive bay, as well as with backplane and hot swap modules.

Thermaltake Silent 1156 CPU Cooler Review

So you’re looking at building a new PC and you’re looking for a better than stock cooling heatsink for your Socket LGA 1156 CPU in a current build? With not very much to choose from other than the higher end CPU coolers, the Thermaltake Silent 1156 CPU cooler is one of the CPU coolers you should have a look at. Read on to learn more about it…

CyberPower Gamer Dragon Phenom II X6 Gaming System Review

Not that long ago NVIDIA released its GTX 460 video cards. These cards gave gamers an even better bang for their buck and the cards were aimed to compete with AMD’s low end 5800 and 5700 series cards. Of course many custom PC builders have incorporated these new cards into their systems to give gamers better performance at a great price. Cyberpower PC is one of those custom PC builders and today we will be looking at their Gamer Dragon system which features an AMD Phenom II X6 processor, NVIDIA GTX 460 GPU, 2GB of DDR3 memory and much more. All of this for just over $1000 too! Let’s check it out!

Weekend News Post 9-11-10

Well it is the weekend! Make sure you check out our article on Microsoft’s Street Slide, it is pretty cool! Here is a quote from the article…

“Name one person you know who has a smart phone and has never used Google Maps? Nearly impossible, huh? That probably has something to do with it being one of the best apps you can install on a smart phone. Well, leave it to Microsoft to take something awesome and attempt to make it better. On July 23rd 2010 a video appeared debuting Microsoft’s new maps program code named “Street Slide”.”Read On…

Microsoft’s Street Slide

Name one person you know who has a smart phone and has never used Google Maps? Nearly impossible, huh? That probably has something to do with it being one of the best apps you can install on a smart phone. Well, leave it to Microsoft to take something awesome and attempt to make it better. On July 23rd 2010 a video appeared debuting Microsoft’s new maps program code named “Street Slide”. Systems such as Google Street View and Bing Maps Streetside enable users to virtually visit cities by navigating between immersive 360panoramas, or bubbles. The discrete moves from bubble to bubble enabled in these systems do not provide a good visual sense of a larger aggregate such as a whole city block. Multi-perspective “strip” panoramas can provide a visual summary of a city street but lack the full realism of immersive panoramas.

“Kingwin is a company we have not heard much from in the past year. Recently they have released a new series of power supplies called the Lazer Gold Series. These power supplies are available in 550W, 700W, 850W and 1000W sizes and are 80PLUS Gold certified meaning they will run at least 87% efficient between 20% and 100% load and 90% efficient at 50% load. These power supplies also feature support for the latest processors and graphics cards, an active PFC, modular cables and a 140mm blue LED fan. Today we will be taking a look at the 1000W version, let’s see if it performs up to our expectations.”Read On…